The internet seems to connect the entire world, yet it is tightly controlled by a few tech giants. From search to social media, from payments to content distribution, every click reinforces the control of large platforms over our data. Web3.0 is attempting to rewrite these rules of the game—not to overthrow the internet, but to return it to its original dream: open, fair, and secure.
This is not a utopian fantasy. To understand why Web3.0 is important, we need to first look at the trajectory of the internet's development.
Internet Evolution: From the Open Era to the Power Shift to Platform Oligarchs
In the early days of computer networks, a handful of protocols quietly changed the world—TCP, IP, SMTP, and HTTP. These protocols emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, embodying the spirit of openness and inclusiveness. They are truly open standards; anyone anywhere in the world can build systems based on these protocols equally, without any restrictions.